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Reports tagged with Rice's Theorem:
TR96-060 | 19th November 1996
Bernd Borchert, Frank Stephan

Looking for an Analogue of Rice's Theorem in Complexity Theory

Rice's Theorem says that every nontrivial semantic property
of programs is undecidable. It this spirit we show the following:
Every nontrivial absolute (gap, relative) counting property of circuits
is UP-hard with respect to polynomial-time Turing reductions.

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TR01-057 | 15th August 2001
Boaz Barak, Oded Goldreich, Russell Impagliazzo, Steven Rudich, Amit Sahai, Salil Vadhan, Ke Yang

On the (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs

Informally, an <i>obfuscator</i> <b>O</b> is an (efficient, probabilistic)
"compiler" that takes as input a program (or circuit) <b>P</b> and
produces a new program <b>O(P)</b> that has the same functionality as <b>P</b>
yet is "unintelligible" in some sense. Obfuscators, if they exist,
would have a wide variety of cryptographic ... more >>>




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